In Thailand, every three months a rotation of local artists mix their canvases with a vast 4, 000-piece collection of contemporary Thai art hanging at the luxury Siam Kempinski Hotel Bangkok.

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Four Seasons is also opening a new hotel later this year, two doors down from the Ciragan Palace Kempinski on the Bosporus--a boat is planned to connect the locations so guests can split visits.

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Just two streets away is the restored and ritzy Kempinski Hotel, where German celebrities drink burnt orange brandy and philosophize, just as journalist Hannah Arendt and her lover did before the Second World War.

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Nearly all the established brands in Delhi have recently opened business-oriented counterparts in the burgeoning city of Gurgaon, including the Oberoi Gurgaon, Vivanta by Taj (opening 15 December), Leela Kempinski and Best Western Skycity.

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Operated by the Kempinski Hotel, 15 luxury ski chalets gaze over the slopes, allowing visitors to watch the bambi-on-ice skiers slip and slide down the slalom or applaud the smooth boarders as they twist and carve their way down.

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Though five-star resorts such as the Intercontinental, the Hyatt and the Kempinski have long made their mark on this most diminutive of Indian states (all characterised by top-notch service, opulent surroundings and calm, sand-raked beaches) there is nevertheless much charm to be had in forsaking the mammoth swimming pools and generic - if generous - resort bedrooms, and plumping instead for a stay in one of Goa's most evocative, charismatic, heritage boutique hotels.

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